LE'VANT, adjective [Latin levo.] Eastern; denoting the part of the hemisphere where the sun rises. Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. LEVANT', noun Properly, a country to the eastward; but appropriately, the countries of Turkey, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, etc. which are washed by the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
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